Bill Text: NY S00228 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires manufactured home park owners to provide a written justification for rent increases in excess of three percent of the current rent; provides that increases in costs to justify such rent increase for ordinary maintenance or repair to meet the warranty of habitability obligations must be shown to be necessary.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S00228 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00228-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           228

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS,  HINCHEY, JACKSON, MAY, ROLISON, WEBB --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development

        AN  ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to increases of rent
          in manufactured home parks

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 233-b of the real property law, as added by section
     2  12 of part O of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended by adding two
     3  new subdivisions 9 and 10 to read as follows:
     4    9. When a manufactured home park owner notifies the manufactured home-
     5  owners  in  the  park  of  a rent or fee increase and the increase is in
     6  excess of three percent above the current rent,  the  manufactured  home
     7  park  owner  shall provide a written justification for the increase that
     8  complies with this section  and  make  available  to  any  resident,  by
     9  request, documentation that show the costs and commencement of work that
    10  justify the rent increase pursuant to this section, as applicable.
    11    10. In order for an increase in costs to justify a rent increase above
    12  three  percent  pursuant  to  paragraph (a) or (c) of subdivision two of
    13  this section for costs  incurred  for  ordinary  maintenance,  including
    14  preventive maintenance, or repair of the roads, infrastructure, or other
    15  community  property  or  services,  the community owner must demonstrate
    16  that the work performed was necessary  to  meet  the  community  owner's
    17  warranty  of habitability obligations under subdivision m of section two
    18  hundred thirty-three of this article,  and  demonstrate  that  the  rent
    19  increase imposed was no more than was necessary to  cover the actual and
    20  reasonable cost of the work performed.
    21    § 2 Section 233-b of the real property law, as added by chapter 654 of
    22  the laws of 2019, is renumbered section 233-c.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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